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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 12:20:23 +0200
From: Antti Kantee <pooka@cs.hut.fi>
To: tech-security@netbsd.org
Cc: Erik Fair <security-officer@netbsd.org>
Subject: Re: SunOS/Solaris "nobody" UID versus NetBSD's "nobody" UID
Message-ID: <19991118122023.D2558@cs.hut.fi>
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	Erik Fair <security-officer@netbsd.org>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9911180113060.7482-100000@rfhs8036>; from feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de on Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 01:15:02AM +0100

On Thu Nov 18 1999 at 01:15:02 +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Erik Fair wrote:
> > What do the other UNIX-like OSes (e.g. System V, AIX, IRIX) do? (I 
> > don't have access to any of those these days, partly by choice).
> 
> miyu% ssh rfhsi8002 'uname -a ; grep nobody /etc/passwd /etc/group'
> IRIX rfhsi8002 6.2 03131015 IP22
> /etc/passwd:nobody:*:60001:60001:SVR4 nobody uid:/dev/null:/dev/null
> /etc/passwd:nobody:*:-2:-2:original nobody uid:/dev/null:/dev/null
> /etc/group:nobody:*:60001:

IRIX video 6.5 07151440 IP32 mips
/etc/passwd:nobody:*:60001:60001:SVR4 nobody uid:/dev/null:/dev/null
/etc/passwd:nobody:*:60001:60001:original nobody uid:/dev/null:/dev/null
/etc/group:nobody:*:60001:

> > uname -a
> AIX rfhpa8001 1 4 00224F18E000
> > grep nobody /etc/passwd /etc/group
> /etc/passwd:nobody:!:4294967294:4294967294::/:
> /etc/group:nobody:!:4294967294:nobody,lpd

AIX leka 3 4 002027596600
/etc/passwd:nobody:*:529:529:Nobody:/:
/etc/group:nobody:!:4294967294:nobody,lpd

OSF1 rubiini.hut.fi V4.0 564.32 alpha
/etc/passwd:nobodyV:*:60001:60001:anonymous SystemV.4 NFS user:/:
/etc/passwd:nobody:*:65534:65534:anonymous NFS user:/:
/etc/passwd:nobody:*:529:529:Nobody:/:

SunOS anger 5.7 Generic_106542-05 i86pc i386 i86pc
/etc/passwd:nobody:x:60001:60001:SVR4 nobody uid:/dev/null:/bin/sh
/etc/passwd:nobody:x:-2:-2:original nobody uid:/dev/null:/bin/sh
/etc/passwd:nobody:x:65534:65534:Unprivileged user:/:/bin/sh
/etc/group:nobody:*:65534:

HP-UX palisant B.11.00 A 9000/778 2004804704 two-user license
/etc/passwd:nobody:*:-2:-2::/:
/etc/passwd:nobody:*:529:529:Nobody:/:

jaddajaddajadda, guess that the uid of nobody is not that standard.

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